Social Justice Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Social Justice

Social Justice Quotes & Sayings

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What can I say to you today, what I have to say to you is that we need a new sense of urgency about the issue of social justice in this country. — Joe Stroud

Social justice is for everyone, including people with disabilities. — Marlee Matlin

You can do anything you want in the United States of you wear a suit and tie...especially if you are white. That also helps. — Betty Medsger

For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question. — N.K. Jemisin

People create social conditions and people can change them. — Osonye Tess Onwueme

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter. — Wendy Kopp

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. — Bill Ayers

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? — Thomas Sowell

The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy. — Auliq Ice

As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. — Jesse Jackson

Difference between author & reader are only defined by their Intent. — Prem

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice. — Jim Wallis

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless. — Norman Borlaug

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building. — Marcus Garvey

Sitting on the sidelines in our interconnected world is not a sufficient response. — Dillon Burroughs

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice. — Arnold Joseph Toynbee

We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight. — Kermit Roosevelt III

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained. — Helen Keller

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Meaningful progress toward social justice cannot be made in sclerotic education systems that put adults' job security before children's civil rights. — Arthur C. Brooks

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall. — William E. Gladstone

The fight for truth ... is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth. — Vandana Shiva

Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice. — Tony Honore

Whites have traded their culture for power. — Eileen O'Brien

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice. — Anne Rice

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles." — Sonia Johnson

Growing is the result of learning. — Malcolm X

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe. — Vandana Shiva

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice. — Bryan Stevenson

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life. — Albert Einstein

Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality. — Dilma Rousseff

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice. — Arthur Henderson

Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up. — Vandana Shiva

I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented. — Moshe Safdie

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency. — Lewis Thompson Preston

When I liberate others, I liberate myself. — Fannie Lou Hamer

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive — Martin Luther King Jr.

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature. — Jonathan Kozol

The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense. — Rivera Sun

I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women. — Christy Turlington

Apathy is not compatible with love — Simon Tam

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here. — Kathleen Wynne

An educator ... a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself. — Jill Telford

That the military have the power to manipulate personal liberties while cocking a snook at justice and freedom in Balochistan is a fact. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. — Bell Hooks

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights. — Jennifer Chiaverini

The decrease in the number of killings doesn't make any difference if the society has to sleep with the ghosts of the old devil. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice. — Richard Rorty

school people must not fall into the trap of thinking that early preparation for an unjust world requires early exposure to injustice — Oakes Jeannie

A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts. — Mary E. Hunt

Racism cannot be separated from capitalism. — Angela Davis

The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win. — I. F. Stone

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian — William Faulkner

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice. — Jim Wallis

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head. — Dar Williams

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth. — Robert Kuttner

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. — John Maynard Keynes

Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice. — Alan Rosenberg

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams

Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it? — Simon S. Tam

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.
From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris — Martin Luther King Jr.

We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice. — Harold Bloom

Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic. — Bell Hooks

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs. — Terry Eagleton

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself. — Herbert Hoover

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride. — John Scalzi

I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability ... — Stephane Dion

Marxian thought, King argued, should challenge Christians to express their own "passion and concern for social justice". — Troy Jackson

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice. — Alan Lomax

Campuses not only help create social justice movements, they need them. — Gloria Steinem

Equality is humanity. — Rashmit Kalra

As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more. — George Takei

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. — Derrick A. Bell

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about. — Thomas Sowell

Fear of difference is fear of life itself. — Mary Parker Follett

If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it. — Evo Morales

Goods which are not shared are not goods. — Fernando De Rojas

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. — Cormac McCarthy

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue! — Patrick W. Corrigan

Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice. — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice — Nelson Mandela

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship. — Simone Weil

Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change. — Ashton Applewhite

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. — Albert Einstein

It is brave to be involved — Gwendolyn Brooks

It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice. — Max Lucado

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. — Pearl S. Buck

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. — Jules Michelet

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question. — Mary McCarthy

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. — Ernesto Che Guevara

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious? — Rick Perlstein

The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women. — Nawal El Saadawi

We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious. — Toni Morrison

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not. — Matthew Fox

The church wanted us to give out food to malnourished children, but they didn't want us to question why they were malnourished to begin with. — Elvia Alvarado

the phantom of social justice tormented him. — Victor Hugo

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. — Philip Gourevitch

We do not have the right in the name of social justice to bore anyone to death. — Assata Shakur